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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. Format is approximately 9.5 inches by 11.25 inches. 367, [1] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Foreword by Dee Brown. Illustrations (including some in color and fold-out). Maps. Bibliography. Index. This is a companion volume to the television miniseries. This volume offers an in-depth exploration of the Old West, from the first settlers to the last of the buffalo, and the colorful characters that populated the western frontier. This is a heavy book and would require additional shipping if sent outside of the United States. The American frontier, also known as the Old West or the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few western territories as states in 1912 (except Alaska, which was not admitted into the Union until 1959). This era of massive migration and settlement was particularly encouraged by President Thomas Jefferson following the Louisiana Purchase, giving rise to the expansionist attitude known as "Manifest Destiny" and the historians' "Frontier Thesis". The legends, historical events and folklore of the American frontier have embedded themselves into United States culture so much so that the Old West, and the Western genre of media specifically, has become one of the defining periods of American national identity. The archetypical Old West period is generally accepted by historians to have occurred between the end of the American Civil War in 1865 until the closing of the Frontier by the Census Bureau in 1890. By 1890, settlement in the American West had reached sufficient population density that the frontier line had disappeared; in 1890 the Census Bureau released a bulletin declaring the closing of the frontier, stating: "Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line. In the discussion of its extent, its westward movement, etc., it can not, therefore, any longer have a place in the census reports.…